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Panama Canal to add a lane, massively reduce fuel used for shipping
A century after it opened, the Panama Canal is poised to remake cargo transport once again.
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Make delicious popsicles out of booze, goat cheese, and jalapenos
We all loved the Good Humor ice cream truck, but let’s be realistic: Good humor is for children, children with a naive understanding of the world and its woes. What we need, as adults, is an Ennui Truck. And it would sell sophisticated, grown-up frozen treats like blackberry/goat cheese popsicles. In the absence of the […]
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Farmers, beekeepers, brewers: Book takes on New York’s food makers past and present
In her new book, "Eat the City," author Robin Shulman digs in to the Big Apple's food producing past and takes a romp through its lively present.
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San Diego is seeing record numbers of weird black jellyfish
This black jellyfish (which looks a no-more-comforting blood red in this lighting, but black in the open water) can grow to the size of a trash can lid, and its sting packs a serious wallop. Normally these guys are a rare sight around the waters of San Diego; before this decade, they were spotted only […]
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July 2012, the hottest month ever, in five charts
Hope you like the color red.
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Activist group sends Obama a message by carving it into a cornfield
Hot tip from an ex-resident of D.C. to all you activists out there: If you want to get the president’s attention, standing outside the White House with some signs and bullhorns is not going to do it. Everyone does that. You have to get creative. Like these guys, who cut their message into a field […]
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The U.S. keeps passing more and more renewable energy milestones
More renewables in California, more solar at Walmart, and more wind power everywhere.
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In Brooklyn, even the factories are artisanal
Manufacturing is back in Brooklyn! But only in a Renaissance Florence sort of way, where skilled artisans produce craft-objects for wealthy patrons with finicky desires. The New York Times reports that there are, against all odds, still factories in Brooklyn, although they’ve morphed from behemoth plants stamping out assembly-line goods to smaller shops: This building, […]
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The federal government wants to pay for your electric bicycle
Electric bikes and electric motorcycles are awesome. They help you go up hills. They help you reach your destination with a minimum of armpit sweat. And they do this while dumping less carbon into atmosphere than their gas-powered equivalents. (Yes, there is such thing as a gas-powered bicycle. Yah. It’s stupid. We know.) The only […]
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Smart Minnesota public utility smartly votes to shutter coal plant
The increasing cost of coal -- both as a fuel source and as a pollutant -- prompts Rochester's public utility to shut its plant.
